Genus Heterothele

[tarcan]

I am always wondering why we do not hear much about those... they are so amazing, for me the most facinating African species. But of course they are dwarfs, I guess that is one reason why I like them so much! Nevertheless, they are highly entertaining to observe, fierce killing machines!

Anyone else keep these... unfortunatly, I produced two eggsacs that were bad last year and then my female died:mad: Hopefully I will have more luck this year...

Martin

[eman]

Wow. Nice pic and specimen Martin.

[CedrikG]

Nice one Martin, for sure in my wish list.

[moricollins]

Martin, produce some slings so I can afford some :D :D

ONE OW species I do want...
Mori

[Bearo]

yeah these are great :) And yes, they are not talked about enough
I saw one at a friends a while ago.. I think its the first one I have seen, and needless to say, I want one ;)

how big do they get? ~8cm(3,5in)?

[tarcan]

yeah these are great :) And yes, they are not talked about enough
I saw one at a friends a while ago.. I think its the first one I have seen, and needless to say, I want one ;)

how big do they get? ~8cm(3,5in)?

I think my biggest female was about 4cm legspan streched... but I am not very good at evaluating sizes! Not sure if they get bigger though, I have not seen enough full grown specimens to make a decent average...

[Bearo]

I think my biggest female was about 4cm legspan streched... but I am not very good at evaluating sizes! Not sure if they get bigger though, I have not seen enough full grown specimens to make a decent average...
4cm i legspan? you must mean 4in?
the one I saw didnt look adult and it was about 6cm (if i remember it right)
I'm gonna see if I find some info about this

Was the female "agresive" while mating?

[tarcan]

No, I really meant 4 cm, I guess really streched, 5 cm... but as I said, I have a tendency to estimate the spiders smaller, at least that is what people tell me when they get spiders from me...

No, the female was not agressive, but it took forever, I watched the courtship for over an hour and got fed up, just left them together for the night and the next morning removed the male... they have a very intricate mating courtship, but I lack the patience to fully observe it I guess! LOL

Martin

[T.Raab]

Hello,

just did some pics last weekend:

Female:
http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/3781/heterothelevillosellafemalecar.jpg

Male:
http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/8256/heterothelevillosellamalecarap.jpg

[tarcan]

Nice one Timo!

Reminds me I had taken another picture the other day...

Martin

[CedrikG]

I cant beleive I missed some of the sac you produces Martin ... I guess we learn from our mistake!

[tarcan]

I cant beleive I missed some of the sac you produces Martin ... I guess we learn from our mistake!

:? in my first post I mention that the 2 eggsacs were bad, I never successfully bred that species. I mated them, got eggsacs and they were bad...

[Bastian Drolshagen]

hi, got some too ;) She´s still carrying her sac..fingers crossed
http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/2782/rimg01223bx.jpg

[jwasted]

wow she looks like a good mother lol. Hope you get little ones. Nice pics guys!

[T.Raab]

Hi,

yes, they are really good mothers. ;)

[CedrikG]

:? in my first post I mention that the 2 eggsacs were bad, I never successfully bred that species. I mated them, got eggsacs and they were bad...


ahhhh .... ok, I tought those you were selling were from one of your sac, and I tought u had 3 sac or something ... excuse my wonderfull english

[syndicate]

very nice pics!dont think ive ever even seen these pictured before.beautiful t's

[tarcan]

Here are a few new pictures... 2 eggsacs so far and two other females to go...

female

http://photos.globetrotter.net/imgPhoto/albums/03517/gf/20060712211823.jpg

mature male

http://photos.globetrotter.net/imgPhoto/albums/03517/gf/20060712211758.jpg

mating

http://photos.globetrotter.net/imgPhoto/albums/03517/gf/20060804123425.jpg

eggsac:D

http://photos.globetrotter.net/imgPhoto/albums/03517/gf/20060804123446.jpg

Take care

Martin

[T.Raab]

Hi,

nice pictrues Martin.

communal feeding Heterothele villosella spiderlings:

http://img439.imageshack.us/img439/2830/heterothelevillosellagroupfeeding01mb8.jpg

[JonathanF]

My Heterothele villosella, I am 90% sure it's a female- last molt was abit torn up but I'm almost sure I've seen the flaps over there and her dorsal looks female-ish... It's about 5CM (2 inches) in legspan...

During premolt:

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/9726/picture001ax6.jpg

And postmolt:

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/8291/picture004ef3.jpg

http://img131.imageshack.us/img131/484/picture002tq5.jpg

[T.Raab]

Hi,

yes, looking female to me. Males are really tiny. :)

[T.Raab]

Hi,

labium of a H. villosella http://bigbird.lib.umn.edu/enticons/female.gif:

http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/7956/dsc06349tj1.jpg

[IguanaMama]

Those spiders are beautiful. Have they ever made it over to the states? I never saw it on any stocklists. I would buy one for sure!

[tarcan]

I got my first specimens from the US... just like my Encyocratella olivacea!;)

[lychas]

you selling any of those slings?

[tarcan]

Opened the first sac (got three)...

It is good, but not all, some eggs have not developped... hopefully the others will have more babies, but I am still happy!

Martin

[tarcan]

1st instars... they are so cute!

One eggsac got munched, only one other left.

[IguanaMama]

:) I don't think I've ever seen 1st instars look so pretty!!! Congratulations!

[moricollins]

One eggsac got munched, only one other left.

Dang, sorry martin that the sack got munched.

Good luck with the remaining sack (You need to hatch out more of these so I can get some ;) )

Mori

[tarcan]

Mori,

The second sac is good... here are the pics...

Got a fourth eggsac now so I can live with #3 munched...

Also pics of some of the first eggsac at 2nd instar... 22 live one in total...

Martin

[T.Raab]

Hey Martin,

my congrats for the sac. :)

[zLOST]

small baby (http://www.sklipkani.cz/full.php?id=1274)...
thx, Timo :)

[moricollins]

Heterothele villosella:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/moricollins/Heterothele/DSCF2207cropped.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/moricollins/Heterothele/DSCF2207small.jpg

Sorry for the blurriness, hard to photograph so small spiders...

[Tegenaria]

Never heard of this Genus. I must say they remind me of giant Wolf Spiders(Lycosidae)

[tarcan]

Eggsac #3, looking good

#2 had 42 good babies in it...

Still have a female with a 4th one:D

[CedrikG]

Congrats Martin this is good stuff

[syndicate]

tarcan ship some to the states ;)

[tarcan]

Be patient a couple more weeks... along with some other seriously funky small guys... :D

Martin

[syndicate]

:cool: good looking!

[JonathanF]

My Heterothele villosella female


http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/7717/hvillosella2jw5.jpg


I'm looking for a MM, if anyone ships worldwide, PM me :)

[syndicate]

very nice.whats the legspan?

[Parahybana3590]

such gorgeous Tarantulas!! Its such a shame that you dont see them for sale too often (in the states anyway)

[JonathanF]

very nice.whats the legspan?

About 2" :)

[Tegenaria]

About 2" :)

amazing, it looks so much bigger!

[moricollins]

did some rehousing today, Heterothele vllosella:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/moricollins/Heterothele/DSCF2710.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/moricollins/Heterothele/DSCF2711.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/moricollins/Heterothele/DSCF2715.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/moricollins/Heterothele/DSCF2717.jpg

Mori

[syndicate]

awesome man.im waiting for mine to get more size.hes molted bout twice in my care.sux i lost the other two i had :[one got shipped missing legs and died a day after and the other died molting the same week.

[moricollins]

H. villosella, mature male I think, need to double check in a bit:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/moricollins/Heterothele/DSCF2952.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/moricollins/Heterothele/DSCF2953.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/moricollins/Heterothele/DSCF2959.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/moricollins/Heterothele/DSCF2963.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/moricollins/Heterothele/DSCF2972.jpg

[zLOST]

Hi,
i'd vote for a male, Mori

[moricollins]

Hi,
i'd vote for a male, Mori

He's definitely a male, and from the looks of it mature (had to double check with a magnifier, he has palpal emboli)

[tarcan]

yes, mature indeed

[Gigas]

(had to double check with a magnifier, he has palpal emboli)
If T's had egos that sentence would have badly damaged his!

[T.Raab]

Hi,

If you need one check more, its 100% mature male.
(You can see the brush of hairs on the Metatarsus - this feature is only visible in mature males. ;) )

[zLOST]

Hi,
http://sklipkani.cz/pics/Heterothele_villosella-1885.jpg (http://sklipkani.cz/full/1885/Heterothele_villosella) http://sklipkani.cz/pics/Heterothele_villosella-1886.jpg (http://sklipkani.cz/full/1886/Heterothele_villosella)

[tarcan]

Well, we had forgotten and eggsac with a female and today found some 2nd instars running around with the female.

Here are a few pictures of communal feeding with mommy and siblings.

Martin

[PhilR]

Two of mine have just moulted out into males by the looks of it (at last!) and I have two freshly moulted females :)

[P. Novak]

Martin, that is an awesome picture, I like how the baby is feeding off the mothers cage; so motherly lol. What species is that?

[syndicate]

mines finaly showing some adult colors.hopin its a female!

[T.Raab]

Martin, that is an awesome picture, I like how the baby is feeding off the mothers cage; so motherly lol. What species is that?

Hi Paul,

its Heterothele villosella.

Just for info, in the next BTS Issue will be a large article about this species! ;)

[GoTerps]

Heterothele villosella female

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v604/GoTerps/H-vilosella1.jpg

Eric

[GoTerps]

Heterothele villosella w/ eggsac. Mated 3 weeks ago.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v604/GoTerps/H-vilosella1eggsac.jpg

Eric

[syndicate]

congrats eric!will be nice to see more of these around.great spiders :D

[GoTerps]

Here's some 1st instar H. villosella feeding together.

Mom kills the cricket and then the babies take over :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v604/GoTerps/H-villosella1feeding.jpg

Eric

[GoTerps]

The young have molted 2 more times since that last photo.

It's SOOOO cool to sit and watch them all feed together.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v604/GoTerps/Heterothele-villosella32.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v604/GoTerps/Heterothele-villosella33.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v604/GoTerps/Heterothele-villosella34.jpg

Eric

[hamfoto]

Saaahhhhhhhwweeeeeeet Photo! Look at all those little guys working together! {D

Chris

[seanbond]

great pix martin!

great job terps!

[syndicate]

Eric fantastic photos man!i love seeing shots like this.im gonna have to grab a group of these slings off ya.the only one i had left from my original 3 just died a week ago for some unkown reason :?

[hamfoto]

Heterothele villosella

Chris

[Grupofix]

Some of my pics:

Adult male
http://g-spiders.cz/pic/heterothele/villosella_01.jpg

adult female
http://g-spiders.cz/pic/heterothele/villosella_02.jpg

and little critters ( sorry about quality )
http://g-spiders.cz/pic/heterothele/villosella_04.jpg

[Skullptor]

Just picked it up today!

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g129/forensicsculptor/spidey/CSC_0044.jpg

[tarcan]

female

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/tarantulacanada/IMG_1411.jpg

[syndicate]

Nice shot!I'd like to get a group of these going.

[hamfoto]

Martin, nice! What species??? interesting abdomen...

Chris

[tarcan]

Chris,

It is H. gabonensis

Take care

Martin

[Texas Blonde]

It is H. gabonensis

Martin


That is a fantastic looking spider! Thanks for sharing the pic Martin.

[fartkowski]

Heterothele villosella

http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/fartkowski/piders/044-1.jpg

[fartkowski]

Heterothele villosella

http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/fartkowski/piders/066.jpg

[dozelina]

one of my h villosella

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh2/dozele/IMGA0131.jpg
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh2/dozele/IMGA0130.jpg

[Mack&Cass]

http://i861.photobucket.com/albums/ab171/CassMack/IMG_3208.jpg

http://i861.photobucket.com/albums/ab171/CassMack/IMG_3209.jpg

Cass

[Protectyaaaneck]

Nice gabonensis. Do you have a female to mate him too? I want to get some of these for a communal really bad.

[Mack&Cass]

Nice gabonensis. Do you have a female to mate him too? I want to get some of these for a communal really bad.

We sent him off today on a 50/50. Hopefully it's all successful.

Cass

[Protectyaaaneck]

Oops...umm I was going to ask if there are multiple bloodlines going throughout Canada? Did Cedrik breed different females to different males?

[AbraxasComplex]

Well the two females will double his chances. Can't wait till he arrives. :)

[rubenphobia]

H.villosella

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c279/rubenphobia/tarantulas%20de%20rubenphobia/Heterotele%20villosella/villosellla_30_11_09.jpg